It has been claimed that
Freemasonry evolved from Rosicrucianism in early 18th Century
England. Although there are links to suggest that the Rosicrucians used the
lower Masonic degrees as initiatory levels into their own ‘higher class’, the
two institutions appear to offer different bodies of knowledge. The
Rosicrucian movement was derived from an allegorical book written by Johann
Valentin Andrea, a German pastor who was born in 1586. A benevolent
philanthropist, he appears to have been creating the blue-print for the
Rosicrucian Brotherhood, an order that was later actually established by
alchemists and Hermeticists (1). In keeping with the Masonic ‘seven
sciences’ it should be noted that the seventh and highest science of the
Rosicrucians was astronomy.

The
symbols of the Rose and the Cross are themselves deeply suggestive of Nibiru
which was often depicted form of a cross by the ancients, as Zecharia Sitchin
describes:

“The pictographic sign for the Twelfth Planet,
the “Planet of the Crossing”, was a cross. This cuneiform sign, which also
meant “Anu” and “divine”, evolved in the Semitic languages to the letter tav,
which meant “the sign”. (2)

This
vital observation is often lost during arguments about the nature and timing of
this mythical planet and its orbit. The earliest symbol of Nibiru was a
cross, and this seems inextricably linked to its later Messianic symbolism
during the Graeco-Roman era.

Nibiru's red countenance perfectly fits with
the 'Rosy Cross' symbol used by Freemasons and Rosicrucians, and is connected
with esoteric concepts such as the 'Blazing Star', the 'Dark Satellite' (3), the
"Night" of Isian Rites ("who weaves her web with rapid light though
it be less than Sun’s” (4))
and the 'Eighth Sphere' of the Theosophists (5). It also finds a parallel
home with the red disc of Horus contained within the ancient Egyptian Winged
Disc, here shown associated with Isis.

Rosencreutz

The most famous work of the Rosicrucians is the
‘Chemical Wedding’ by Christian Rosencreutz, a fabled romance full of allegory
and arcane symbolism (6). The work is deeply symbolic, and designed to challenge
the most knowledgeable adept of alchemy and Christian mysticism. The Phoenix,
another potential Nibiruan symbol, makes an appearance in ‘The Chemical
Wedding’, as well as a great deal of celestial symbolism pertaining to alchemy
and the Hermetic Arts.

There
are certain aspects of Rosicrucian lore that correspond closely with the ancient
knowledge of Nibiru. The fictional hero, Christian Rosencreutz, takes the
archetypal form of the ‘dying and rising godman’ in the ‘Fama Fraternitatis’
(7). After creating the order of the Rosicrucian Brotherhood, Rosencreutz dies
at the age of 100 (sometimes claimed as 106 years) in 1484, and his body is
lost. His 8 closest followers seek his tomb, which remains lost for 120 years.
The ‘tomb’ is found to be a seven-sided vault lit by an ‘artificial sun in the
centre of the arched roof’ (8). This is most important: it leads us to the
discovery of a hidden source of light in the darkness, a self-luminous companion
to the Sun that is associated with the number 7 and has Messianic overtones.

In this highlighted diagram of Rosencreutz's tomb
, sent to me by Greg Jenner, the trinity of celestial symbols is plain to see:
The Sun, Moon and Sceptre. The Sceptre is associated with both the symbol
of the Cross and that of the Crown above it. The majesty of this third
body in unequivocal. It is Nibiru, the returning Lord of the heavens, and it
takes centre-stage in the iconography of Rosicrucian lore. The mountain of
symbols below is simply an extension of this sacred Sceptre. Adepts can
find precious clues about the nature of Nibiru here.

A striking parallel can also be made with the
ancient Mysteries, the knowledge of which required initiation. Max Heindel,
a writer belonging to the Rosicrucian Fellowship in Oceanside , California,
describes the spiritual connotations of the 'Blazing Star' for Initiates:

"To their spiritual vision, the solid Earth
becomes transparent and they saw the Sun at midnight - "The Star". It was
not the physical Sun they saw with spiritual eyes, but the Spirit in the Sun -
The Christ - their spiritual Saviour, as the physical Sun was their physical
Saviour." (9)

The
symbol of the Rosy Cross is connected with alchemy in the minds of many
scholars. The ecclesiastical historian Mosheim has this interesting point to
make:

“The cross, in the chemical style, is
equivalent to light, because the figure of the cross exhibits at the same time
the three letters of which the word lux, i.e., light, is compounded. Now, lux
is called by this sect [Rosicrucianism] the seed or menstruum of the red
dragon.” (10)

This strikes me as a rather compelling connection
between a celestial image, alchemy and the Rosy Cross.

The Rosicrucians linked the light of the Cross
with the ‘menstruum of the red dragon’, a rather bizarre image in terms of known
astronomy or astrology. The Dark Star Nibiru fits in the image well, connecting
the light of the Cross with the celestial red dragon, and hinting at similar
imagery within Alchemy. The Christian symbolism regarding the Rose is well
known, Christ having been ‘prophetically called the “rose of Sharon”’ in the
Bible (8). Again, a direct link can be made with the Messianic Star,
pinpointing Nibiru's last return to a period some 2000 years ago.